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Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

My mom (RIP) was a Trustee for a local affiliate of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This was an honest outfit, interested in protecting and advancing both workers' jobs and the industry that provided them.

My joke was at the expense of unions in general, but I believe in them as a necessary part of the management/labor balance.

Oh I wuzn't sayin' unions are bad ... merely that in sum locations they perty much have a "very firm hand" in controllin' who may or may not werk ...

I've allus been a union man if/when I wuz in a job-type dealie where it wuz considered to be merely an option ... never werked where it wuz mandatory, but even the "choice" areas have inducements ... most of which are not "bad" per se ...

Nodak is a right-to-werk state, so unions aren't much of a big deal here, except in certain occupations ... electrical, plumbing ... well, the AMA of course, and the teachers perty much stay in the union becuz there's sum REALLY WACKO ways to lose ones job if one doesn't have the union backin' 'em up (one teacher lost a job becuz she told her class that Santa Claus wuzn't real ... another becuz she wuz a redhead, "and you know how redheads are ..." said one school board member ... ISIANMTU! ...

But unions has a place, so I don't think they should be deleted ... but it's fun to tease 'em a bit ... as long as the union guy doesn't have a large hammer or wrench in his hand ...

And the NYC theater story is true (long ago) ... a friend (werkin' stage crew) said he walked across the stage, picked up a hammer, walked back, and lost his job ... wuzn't in the carpenters' union ...